Contents
Introduction: Urbanization and water systems
Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard
Part 1 The first cities, their localization and structure
1. Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan. the tale of an early city and water
control in ancient Palestine Lorenzo Nigro
2. Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization: water supply and water use in
the third millennium BC Michael Jansen
3. Xian: water management and the development of the city planning in history
Xiaochang C. Wang and Rong Chen
4. Phoenician cities and water: the role of sacred sources in the urban development
of Motya, Western Sicily Federica Spagnoli
5. Waters at Babylon Olof Pedersén
6. Water control in ancient Greek cities Demetris Koutsoyiannis and Anna Patrikiou
7. Plumbing Ancient Rome Katherine Rinne
Part 2: Water systems and urban development through history
8. Aksum: water and urbanization in northern Ethiopia Federica Sulas
9. Machu Picchu: water engineering in the mountains Kenneth R. Wright
10. The water supply of Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople James Crow
11. Timbuktu: origin of urbanism by the "Mother's well" Douglas Park
12. Water management in a maritime culture: the Swahili coast of East Africa
Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher
13. Holy wells, hot springs and royal baths: water and socio-cultural developments in
medieval and post-medieval Ethiopia
Niall Finneran
14. An urban structure along the sacred waters of the Ganges in Varanasi Savitri Jalais
15. Damascus: the Death of the Garden of Eden
Francesca de Châtel
16. An environmental history of the Viennese sanitation system - from Roman to modern
times Michael Neundlinger, Sylvia Gierlinger, Gudrun Pollack & Fridolin Krausmann
Part 3: The growth of the modern city
17. New York: water management and metropolitan development Betsy McCully
18. Paris: a history of water, sewers and urban development Sabine Barles & André Guillerme
19. Creating the urban hydraulic machine: water, technology, and the building of Boston
Michael J. Rawson
20. Manchester: canals and the development of the city during the industrial revolution
Peter Maw
21. Houston's public sinks: water and wastewater services in the 'energy capital' of the
world Martin V. Melosi
22. Bergen: water and sewage in the rainy city Morten Hammerborg and Martin Byrkjeland
23. History of water and sanitation services in the urban-rural context - the city of Tampere,
Finland Tapio S. Katko and Petri S. Juuti
24. Los Angeles: the city's water systems from its origins to today Irene J. Klaver
25. Dar es Salam: the development of water supply and sewage systems
Marianne Kjellén and Alphonce Kyessi
26. Rotterdam dynamic polder and harbour city Fransje L. Hooimeijer & Han Meyer
27. Regulating discretion: privatization of Manilla's water supply Leong Ching and Xun Wu
Part 4: Urbanism and the water illusion
28. Mexico City: a tale of water development, its values and challenges
29. The Singapore water story re-examined Eduardo Araral and Leong Ching
30. Las Vegas: a city gambling with water Leah J. Wilds
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